Motor Sport: Former British rally champion Gwyndaf Evans heads a star-studded line-up in Saturday's York-based Trackrod Forest Stages Rally.

North Yorkshire's premier rally forms the penultimate round of the Mintex National Championship and although Evans will not be registered to take points off title-chasing hopefuls, the Welsh Seat works driver will represent a good benchmark for others to judge their progress.

Evans drives a Super Six specification Ibiza, identical to those campaigned in Seat's invitation only single-make championship of which the Trackrod is the final round.

The new FIM team trials rules, introduced last year after a British team skittled the Spaniards, backfired on Dougie Lampkin, Steve Colley, Graham Jarvis and Martin Crosswaite in Italy where the Spaniards, headed by Marc Colomer, beat the British quartet by 11 points.

Lampkin was the best individual ahead of Colomer and Italian Donato Miglio, with Jarvis next.

Robin Luscombe and passenger Wayne Kershaw won the Sutton Falcon's Rosebowl Trophy Trial at Ashover to edge to within three points of the leader in the British Sidecar Trials Championship.

The Cullingworth champion now has to win the grand finale at the Peak Trial in November at Hope, North Derbyshire, to retain his crown.

Haworth's Wayne Braybrook won the West Leeds MC National White Rose Trial at Ribblehead from Sheffield teenager Dan Thorpe. Silsden's John Lampkin took third on his Beta.

Allerton sprinter Martin Grimwood rocketed his super-charged four-cylinder Honda down the quarter-mile strip at 135mph to break the class record in the National Sprint Association meeting at Melbourne, near York.

Brighouse's Trevor Duckworth was one of the fastest men at the meeting on a 1230cc Suzuki which was travelling at 152mph during its winning runs.

Otley's Richard Baker again headed the scooter class on his Lambretta. He went through the timing lights from a standing start at just over 83mph.

Nigel Bromley won the Ilkley Motor Club's annual Uniroyal event by a large margin in his Nova.

Dougie Lampkin should stroll to another British Trials Championship crown in Whitworth next Sunday at the Back Cwm Quarries overlooking the former textile town south of Burnley.

He has a points advantage over Graham Jarvis, but still has to finish well up if Jarvis beats him - which he has done once already this year.

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